As a point of interest, I recently recalled a recurring nightmare that I used to have.

At about 7 years old, I dreamt nearly every night that if I didn't get to bed at nine, a monster would emerge from the TV and eat me. I actually started getting scared to go to sleep because it happened every night.

Nowadays, I always get sleepy at nine, but if I stay up past nine I have trouble sleeping. I think there may be a connection.

Oldman can do the awesome voice over for the preview!:This Winter, Earth will never be the same again....They will come from the sky....They will come from the sea.....They will come from the ground....They will destroy everything in their path. They say our future lies in the children.....And the children's future lies in one man......FoolsGold is...

The "Gold" Digger!

Coming to a theater near you January 14th.

The ending can consist of some mythical figure in the shape of an eskimo revealing to you that the Soldiers that are invading are actually YOU! That'll keep the audience guessing.

Then you need a catchy, almost nonsensical catchphrase like, "Go For the Gold!"

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When I was much younger, I used to have recurring dreams where I was in a kind of war-zone. I was never in the army. The war-zone I am talkng about is not the modern kind; it was more the old type where no firearms were used. It was really frightening where I needed to run from my "enemies" (not too sure who there were) and I was not sure whether I was actually killed because it kind of ended halfway through when I woke up. There are gone now.

There are as many explanations as there are dream-interpretors.

In your case, a "SSS" (Sylvestor Stallone Syndrome) perhaps

The explanation I most like to believe is the "quantum-mind slipping into a quantum parallel universe" when your conscious mind is asleep and the sub/un conscious mind awakens and tap into this parallel universe where there is a duplicate 'you' living almost similar or even contradictory lives.

'Ghosts or other apparitions or even UFOs' are also taken to be these duplicate beings from this parallel universe dreaming their way into our universe. So "we" are also the ghosts/UFOs in their universe.

Another one is where you are re-living previous lives in your dreams when these previous lives are embedded into your present psychic memory at the moment of your conception when your eternal soul finds a new temporary home.

A "trick" which is worth trying is tying a coloured string round a finger before going to sleep and when the dream occurs, will yourself to look at that string; if you see that string, well, you just take it from there and see what happens. The danger is you may get trapped in that dream in the sense that you "awakens" in the dream itself and finding your way back into the 'real' awaken state that you stated off with. I suppose you will then have to fall asleep in that dream and try to awaken again "here"

If you can do this at will, wow, you probably can conquer time and space itself!

Who really knows? Maybe HE does, but HE is not talking, at least not to me.

A question -- do animals, insects, fish dream? They all have brains / minds, so why not?